Improvement in paper-files



tntrdtatw @met @Mina GEORGE W. EMERSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR`TO JOHN R.

BARRETT, or sinus` PLAGE.

Letters Patent No. 102,237, dated April 26, 1870; antalated Apr/il 23,1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER-PILES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part o thesax-ne I, GEORGE W. EMERSON, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and Stateof Illinois, have invented certain Improvements in Temporary Binders forfiling and binding sheet-music, pamphlets, office and newspapers of allkinds.

The nature of my invention relates to the construction of an improvedcleat on which the binding-cordsl of a temporary binder are made fast.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a binder with my 4improved cleatattached.

Figure 2 is a broken elevation of one ofthe flat steel tempered wireswith a cleat attached.

Figure 3 is an elevation of the cleat.

A A are the lids of the binder, with hack, B, attached in the usualmanner of att-aclng the back of an ordinary portfolio.

C C are pieces of flat steel-tempered-wre, incased in book-cloth, whichis firmly glued tov either side of the lids A A before the back B is puton the lids.

-Thus the flattened wires C C are held firmly to place near the entirelength of the lids, and about one-eighth of an inch from the edges, thecloth being joined together in the space between the edges of the lidsand the flattened wires, which forms a hinge, on which the lids open andshut when the flattened wires C C are held firmly together with cords EE, and cleats D D.

The cords are passed through eyelet-holes in on of the flattened wiresC'C, opposite the cleats D D, fro the inside, and are held in theseeyelets by knots on t e ends of the cords, when they are drawn througheyelet-holes in each of the flattened wires C C.

Publications, to be bound in this binder, should be .placed inthe binderand marked through the eyeletsat the proper distance from the back orfold.

The cords E E,`in needles F F, are passed through the publications atthe marks, and through eyeletholes in the one of the flattened wires CC, to which the cleats D D are attached, and pressed onto publications,while the cords are drawn tightly and belay'ed or firmly fastened oncleats D D, which insures a firm binding.

'Ihe cleat D is made of soft brass wire, or other suit` ablematerial,turned and doubled in aline parallel to the bar of the cleats S to formthe ends J J, each of which are about one-third the length of theventire cleat.

The ends, K K, are turned down at I I from the i ends J J at rightangles with the same and the bar S.,

After the cleat is formed in this shape it is slightly flattened on topand rounded underneath, and made thin at the points of the ends J J, andturned'up in the shape cf a swan bill on the under side by swaging,which serves to stiften the cleat and make it more firm, also to presenta smooth surface, tol prevent thel cutting and wearing of the cords E E,and that they may be the more easily bela'yedl or fastened` on the cleatwhen it is attached to one of the flattened wires C C, by turning theends K K in `opposite directions from eachother up against the flattenedwire Cl after they have been passed through holrs made for the purposethrough the flattened wire C, by the ends K K; so turned up the cleat isheld closely and firmly against the attened wire C.

The cleat D is an improvement over the fastenings D D, described a'ndset forth in the Letters Patent,

No. .7 9,560, granted to me July 7, 1868.

I claim as my invention- The construction of the cleat D, as an articleof manufacture, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore setforth.

. GEO. W. EMERSON.

` Witnesses H. A. CLARKE, J No. R. BARRETT.

